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  1. Whenever they release this into the wild - see if they will allow 3rd party encryption external to their control on the platform

    If they don't allow it, we will know what they are up to

    Facebook is ridiculously evil. This is almost as bad as trusting McAfee for anti-virus

  2. Flapping Heads on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    So after they told this dude he was getting extradited did they say ....

    You're not our buddy, guy.
    You're not our guy, friend.
    You're not our friend, buddy.

    etc.
    etc.
    etc.

  3. Most of the fake science was generated!

    https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/arc...

  4. Re:Market forces are a bitch on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Agreed about the duopoly - but that's changing too

    5G will be here soon enough and 4g providers are all screaming about their unlimited plans this and that - T Mobile offering all you can eat NetFlix etc.

    There is a decent amount of competition out there - and if there isn't enough we can all get on board for de-regulating that space and getting more competition

    Comcast know this too - they know they are potentially the next GrandMa Bell

  5. From TFA - "unravels a signature accomplishment of the Obama administration" and from the fact that George Soros is upset - I'm guessing its a double win ;)

    Seriously though - what do you think will happen if Comcast decides to fuck with customers Hulu/Netflix/Amazon traffic? or Comcast gets busted fucking with access to websites? Nothing? No market ramifications?

    I buy DIA from carriers all the time on behalf of clients - if a carrier even has a whiff of messing with traffic - the first question I will have when the broker hands me the quote is "is this for 'the internet' or whatever it is you call 'the internet'?" - They will get the point REAL fast because they know that DIA is purely a commodity just like utilities and PSTN access

    Do you think the market will just say "oh well shucks golly, I guess we cant get what we want ..." - no! The market will punish them ... and they know it

    Also - The Obama rules were in place since 2015 - so was the internet seriously fucked up before 2015?

    Please help me remember those dystopian pre-2015 horror-show days because nothing jumps to mind at the moment

  6. Why bother? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    Use a bank that will text you everytime the card gets used. As soon as you see an unauthorized charge, call the bank and cancel the card. They typically cancek the fraud charges out and send you a new card. Best security is simple information

  7. When the stoners get the munchies at midnight and they want to score some Taco Bell or Dominos - who are the working idiot chumps that will be serving them?

  8. I want to check out their website http://www.rightscorp.com/ and it's not loading.

    I keep clicking refresh over and over and over and its still not loading .....

    Hmmmmmm I wonder why?

  9. Re: Yay! on Rumor: Broadcom Phasing Out Wi-Fi Chip Business (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the all time WORST network chip makers in the world. I wish they would just go away all together.

    How about the crappy motherboard NICs and crappy drivers that go with it?

    They update their drivers almost on a daily basis.

    They cause more PC and server networking nightmares than I can count.

    Server acting up? Step 1 is ALWAYS update the shitty Broadcom drivers. But even that doesn't always work.

  10. Re: Irony on Dormant Virus Wakes Up In Some Patients With Lou Gehrig's Disease · · Score: 1

    Sorry but you misunderstand me - my bad

    Humor is probably the only weapon we have at this point and I understand that.

    I've seen two people I love die this way and its probably the worst possible way to go. The brain is the last thing to go and its aware as the body dies around it. It's horrifying to see. With cancer at least the victim can put up a fight until the end - with this there is no fight.

    God bless you and your Uncle.

  11. Re: Irony on Dormant Virus Wakes Up In Some Patients With Lou Gehrig's Disease · · Score: -1, Troll

    You obviously have never seen this disease kill anyone you know and I hope you never will.

    If you had, you would know that cheap lame jokes may not be the best thing for your non-
    Slashdot/real-life Karma.

    With that being said - go fuck yourself anyway.

  12. That does it... on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    I had no interest in this stupid movie, but now I will check TPB and torrent the damn thing just on principle

  13. REM said it best on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    Fall On Me
    Song by R.E.M.

    There's a problem, feathers, iron
    Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys
    Feathers hit the ground
    Before the weight can leave the air

    Buy the sky and sell the sky
    And tell the sky, and tell the sky
    Fall on me (what is it up in the air for)
    Fall on me (if it's there for long)
    Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)

    There's the progress
    We have found a way to talk around the problem
    Building towers
    Foresight isn't anything at all

    Buy the sky and sell the sky
    And bleed the sky and tell the sky
    Fall on me (what is it up in the air for)
    Fall on me (if it's there for long)
    Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)
    Fall on me
    (Well I would keep it above but then it wouldn't be sky any more)
    (So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it home)

  14. ... now I have to microwave my arm?

  15. I will miss them.. on RadioShack Near Deal To Sell Half of Its Stores, Close the Rest · · Score: 1

    ... but I admit its all nostalgia

    I cant think of how many times I thought "I will just go to Radio Shack and get that cable/adapter/thingy I need"

    Now I just use Amazon prime like everyone else or a dozen others. Their prices always sucked because they knew they were the only choice you had.

    It used to be the coolest store at the mall. Realistic audio gear, CB radios and all things cool and very geeky.

    I'll miss you Radio Shack. It was a good run. You just couldn't stay relavent long enough. R. I. P.

  16. How perfectly appropriate - on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The leader of one very large religion joining forces with the very large religion of MMGW.

    All MMGW religion is "settled science" with no need for the denying heretics to be heard

    Facts be damned! - we "believe" in MMGW!

  17. Re: 200 channels... on Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17 · · Score: 1

    And I've got second sight!

  18. Re:Schadenfreude on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    People deserve the government they elect - People of California - you deserve this hypocritical retard

  19. Re:Quick fix for the POS POS machines ... on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 1

    True -

    I understand there would be more to lock down - but it doesn't sound like they had isolated the POS at all

  20. Quick fix for the POS POS machines ... on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 1

    Assuming these POS POS machines suck when it comes to security ... why not

    - Install them on their own VLAN in stores
    - Deny the VLAN internet access

    Simple n'est–ce pas?

  21. Spam - the perfect cloak on The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if I want to do terrorist stuff - I should probably hide my communications inside emails about ch3ap V!agr@. Eventually the NSA will have to get a mail washer to help filter out the crap and my criminal activity will go un-noticed.

  22. Right about now ... on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... there is a group of engineers ...

    - Flop sweating their asses off
    - Furiously searching their email for that ass-covering memo to their boss about the pricey "redundant this" or "redundant that" that the boss was too cheap to get
    - Wondering if there is enough alcohol on earth for what they will need later tonight

  23. 77TB!? on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    At 77TB - this guy has an awful lot of friends - and his friends must also be consuming gobs of BW as well

    77TB for a business is an insane amount of bandwidth - wtf is some dude doing with that?

  24. Re:I've always wanted a hovercraft BUT... on So You've Always Wanted a Hovercraft... (Video) · · Score: 1

    Damnit - you are correct ...

    .
    .
    . .do you want to go to my place -- bouncy-bouncy?

  25. Re:I've always wanted a hovercraft BUT... on So You've Always Wanted a Hovercraft... (Video) · · Score: 1

    My nipples explode with life!